Day in Photos: Sept. 12, 2012

Libyan civilians help an unconscious Chris Stevens, at the US consulate compound in Benghazi . Stevens and three of his colleagues were killed in an attack on the US consulate.

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A woman sits on a grass-made sofa in Frankfurt, western Germany. The so-called “Main-Sofa” was initiated by Federal Minister for Environment Puttrich to highlight the upcoming event “Day of Sustainability.”

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Indian commuters on rickshaws and scooters wait in a traffic jam at a bottleneck in the street in New Delhi, India.

AP Photo

A DC-10 tanker jet drops a load of fire retardant on the north side of Casper Mountain as a wildfire continues to burn in Casper, Wyo.

AP Photo

People flee the flooded areas after torrential rains triggered flash floods in outskirts of Jaffarabad, Pakistan. Torrential rains in Pakistan have caused at least 80 deaths and left hundreds homeless.

EPA

President Obama makes a statement on the violence in Libya as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listens in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC.

UPI

A girl looks at lanterns as she visits the Shanghai International Lantern Festival in Luxun Park. According to Chinese tradition, people try to solve puzzles on lanterns, eat Yuanxiao (glutinous rice ball) and enjoy family reunions during the festival.

REUTERS

A single woman pushes a bachelor riding in a shopping trolley at the “adopt-a-guy” (adopte-un-mec) store in Paris. The boutique, with a short-term lease which expires at the end of the week, opened its doors on Tuesday, promising a high-end shopping experience for women searching for Mr Right.

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A Buddhist novice monk walks inside a monastery that farmers are using as a protest camp in Monywa township, Myanmar. Villagers protested against the seizing of over 7,800 acres of farmland, involving 26 villages, for a copper mine project in Sarlingyi Township.

REUTERS

Palestinian youths practice their parkour skills in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Some youths, aged between 12 and 23 years old, in Gaza are training in parkour which was developed in France. Parkour is a physical discipline of movement focused on overcoming obstacles. Training is held in cemeteries, and in former Israeli settlements.

REUTERS

A soldier from the 1st Platoon, Delta Coy, 1-64 AR of the US army – operating under NATO sponsored International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) shares grapes with boys from the local Pashtu tribe after an ISAF night patrol came under small-arms attack a few nights before, at a settlement near Kandahar Air Field.

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas students Ryan Klorman, (L) and Markus Adams, relax on inflatable pool toys in floodwater in a parking lot at UNLV in Las Vegas. Intense thunderstorms drenched parts of the Southwest on Tuesday, delaying flights and stranding motorists in the Las Vegas area and flooding two mobile home parks in Southern Calif.

AP Photo

Philip Schiller the senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple Inc. speaks on stage during an introduction of the new iPhone 5 at an Apple event in the at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.

EPA

Designer Betsey Johnson goes into a split after doing a cartwheel on the runway after the Betsey Johnson Spring 2013 collection show during Fashion Week in New York.

AP Photo

Suspect Ramiro Pozos Gonzalez (R), alias “El Molca “, gestures while being presented to the media at the federal police headquarters in Mexico City. Mexican police have arrested Pozos Gonzalez, a suspected leader and founder of the criminal organization known as “The Resistance” that operates in several states like Jalisco and the state of Mexico.